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Leadership: New Manager Training for Technical Professionals

Learn to establish yourself as a manager and lead your technical team to success. We are PDU Accredited.

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Training 5 or more people?

Inspire and encourage your technical team to get the best out of them in an effective and meaningful manner by delegating tasks and developing performance plans to set achievable goals for personal and professional development.

Become familiar with the responsibilities and challenges of being a manager, including how to lead and guide a team.

Master the arts of successfully facilitating meetings, appraising performance, providing feedback and resolving conflicts within your team and organization.

Demonstrate authority when needed, and learn how to make better decisions after assessing different possibilities.

Lead by setting an example and become more confident and influential in the process.

Deal with conflicting personalities and help others cooperate as a team.

Communicate effectively with your colleagues and senior managers.

Conduct SWOT and STEP analyses to both shape both the company culture and address challenges.

Aside from adapting to a new role with increased responsibilities, new managers must learn to be leaders and explore how to communicate effectively with technical employees, fellow managers, and senior executives. Learn everything you need to know as a new manager to assist the technical professionals you manage in reaching and exceeding their goals, in this comprehensive course bundle.

Master Strategies for Effective Management of Technical Professionals

Lead by setting an example and become more confident and influential in the process.

Communicate effectively with your colleagues and senior managers.

Motivate your staff to encourage personal and professional development.

In this course you will learn that management isn't always so much about leading, as it is about pointing the way. It is your duty to point the way by instructing, giving feedback and sharing your experience with your staff. In this course, you will learn how to develop leadership skills to confidently coach a team of technical professionals. Keeping these dedicated employees motivated in high-tech business environments will help support their professional growth, as well as your company's strategic objectives.

At the end of this course, you will be able to confidently lead and guide a team of technical professionals through day-to-day operations, interpersonal challenges and crisis situations.

This course is a bundle of the following LearnSmart courses, and includes comprehensive information for the following topics:

Introduction to Management

Developing Leadership and Transitioning into Management

Leading and Communicating as a Manager

Successful Communication and Process Management Skills

Taking Control as a Manager

Making an Impact as a Manager

Managing Technical Professionals

Managing the Development of Technical Professionals

LearnSmart is Project Management Institute (PMI)® Global Registered Education Provider (REP 3577). This course qualifies for the above credit hours toward the PMP® or CAMP® training contact hours or toward maintaining your current certification. Thus meeting the Professional Development Unit (PDU) requirement necessary to continue their PMP® Certification or for experienced project managers wanting to brush up on their education.

PMI, PMP, and CAMP are a registered trademarks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.

Who is the target audience?

Technical professionals who have recently moved into management.

Professionals looking to deepen their understanding of human resource and management responsibilities, and how to complete them effectively.

Existing project managers wishing to get certified in recognition of their skills and experience, or others who wish to train to become accredited project managers.

Quizzes in your LearnSmart Online Training help you determine your level of command of the material covered in this training course.

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

Pre-Assessment

7 questions

Introduction

01:29

Core Functions of Management

03:46

Chapter 1 Quiz

5 questions

Demands on a Manager

02:25

The Management Devision-Making Process

04:08

Company Culture

03:27

Personal Development

02:14

The Important/Urgent Matric

04:08

Learning Styles

03:17

Drivers and Resistors

01:53

Summary

00:46

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Developing Leadership and Transitioning into Management

11 Lectures
32:18

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

Pre-Assessment

7 questions

Pointing the Way

01:53

Gallup Organization Findings

00:28

All About People

01:12

Leadership Qualities You'll Want to Learn

01:31

Ten Leadership Styles You May Relate To

03:03

Leadership Pitfalls

03:46

Strengthening Your Leadership Skills Day By Day

10:56

Chapter 1 Quiz

7 questions

Performance Evaluations

00:42

21st Century Tools

01:09

Building a Good Relationship with Your Manager

04:52

Closing

02:46

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Managing Technical Professionals

26 Lectures
01:50:10

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

Pre-Assessment

20 questions

Introduction to Managing Technical Professionals

02:35

Managing Technical Professionals Scenario Description

00:47

Characteristics of a High-tech Business Environment

01:31

Management Structures Suited to a High-tech Company

03:55

Trends That Affect the High-tech Workforce

02:39

Meet the Players

02:03

Remote Office and Virtual Team Scenario

02:43

Personal and Professional Traits of Technical Professionals

02:50

Factors of Job Satisfaction for Technical Professionals

02:22

Establishing and Maintaining Credibility

03:20

Techniques for Attracting Technical Professionals

06:06

Motivating Technical Professionals

03:58

Motivating Technical Professionals Scenario

04:42

Setting Challenging Goals

05:02

Work Environments that Retain Technical Professionals

01:28

Chapter 1 & 2 Quiz

10 questions

Motivating and Management Models

11:28

Leadership Styles

06:15

Developing a High-Performing Team

02:28

Developing a High-Performing Team Scenario

03:42

Forming and Organizing a Technical Task Team

08:09

Overcoming Performance Issues

12:17

Professional Motivation

09:08

Professional Motivation Scenario

04:15

Performance Evaluation Tools

03:14

Career Plan Goals

02:24

Chapter 3 & 4 Quiz

11 questions

Conclusion

00:49

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Leading and Communicating as a Manager

11 Lectures
28:20

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

Pre-Assessment

7 questions

Leadership Roles

02:28

Team Leadership

01:39

Effective Teams

04:00

Team Development

04:23

Effective Delegation

02:06

SMART Objectives

02:33

Chapter 1 Quiz

5 questions

What to Delegate

01:58

Maslow's Hierarchy and Employee Needs

04:03

Communication

03:16

Chairing a Meeting

01:29

Summary

00:25

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Successful Communication and Process Management Skills

12 Lectures
30:11

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

Pre-Assessment

7 questions

Leading by Example

01:35

Stages of Spoken Communication

01:07

Ways to Avoid Communication Barriers

00:42

Modes of Communication in New Media

00:49

Five Signs That You're Communicating Wrong

02:29

Managerial Pressure

01:56

Chapter 1 Quiz

11 questions

Being Organized

02:34

Four Steps of Time Management

06:52

Goal Setting for Managers

04:17

Signs and Symptoms of Workplace Stress

03:05

Common Causes of Workplace Stress

02:17

Stress Management Techniques That Save Your Sanity

02:28

Chapter 2 Quiz

5 questions

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Taking Control as a Manager

9 Lectures
25:12

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

Pre-Assessment

7 questions

Responsibilities of a New Manager

06:47

Establishing Credibility

03:04

Performance Management

01:47

Budget as a Management Tool

01:53

Chapter 1 Quiz

3 questions

Employee Insecurities and Fears

03:02

Overcoming Stress

03:37

How Others Might Feel

02:43

Information and Expectations

01:42

Summary

00:37

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Making an Impact as a Manager

11 Lectures
25:50

This Pre-Assessment quiz is designed so that you will be able to see the progression you have as you complete the course. Whether you have pre-existing knowledge or not, the answers given do not effect any scores or required for certification, but helps get you ready and in the mind-set of what this course will be covering.

LearnSmart has served the learning community with high-quality professional skills and IT certification training since 1997. In that time, the company has helped thousands earn career-related certifications from respected vendors, such as Project Management Institute (PMI)®, Cisco, Microsoft, CompTIA, Oracle, and EC-Council. LearnSmart offers over 1,000 courses covering IT, project management, administrative, HR, and workplace safety topics. With a rapidly growing clientele of individuals and corporations, LearnSmart serves a broad range of Fortune 500 companies to universities, as well as government institutions and the armed forces.

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